{"id":1376,"date":"2012-03-26T07:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T07:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2012-03-26T07:15:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T07:15:14","slug":"los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Medical Marijuana Workers join Labor Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFCW-7702.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UFCW 770\" title=\"UFCW 770\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13540\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/attachment\/ufcw-770\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13546\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/attachment\/ufcw-770-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFCW-7702-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Everyone in the American work force would appreciate more employment perks.\u00a0 However, most of us do not have to fear being arrested by federal authorities at work.\u00a0 Medical marijuana dispensary employees have to confront this fear regularly, and now workers in Los Angeles seeking better representation and protection have now joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufcw770.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFCW 770 represents a wide variety of retail workers including barbers, beauticians, pharmacy workers, meat packing and food processing employees, and laboratory workers.\u00a0 Ricardo Icaza, president of Local 770, was eager to welcome the dispensary workers.\u00a0 He summed up his excitement by saying, &#8220;This is the next step in professionalizing and stabilizing this new sector of the health care industry.\u00a0 &#8220;This is a positive step towards successfully integrating compassionate care into our system of health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move is in response to the proposed ban on medical marijuana dispensaries by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacity.org\/YourGovernment\/CityCouncil\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles City Council<\/a>.\u00a0 Mr. Icaza indicated that he directed the union\u2019s political influence toward pressuring officials to avoid the ban.\u00a0 The president of the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance (GLACA), Yamileth Bolanos, welcomed the help and said &#8220;It&#8217;s time to bring in some big guns,&#8221; she told the Los Angeles Times &#8220;Not only are they threatening access for patients, they&#8217;re also trying to take jobs away from our employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Workers in this vulnerable industry are seeking more protection and assurances that they can serve patients.\u00a0 The Los Angeles employees are not the only medical marijuana workers to join a union.\u00a0 In October of last year, Colorado dispensary workers also joined the UFCW.\u00a0 While the moves may not yield results overnight, workers may benefit from greater representation.\u00a0 This ultimately may not eliminate federal raids but could possibly bring more attention to vulnerable jobs that our economy cannot ill afford to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFCW-7702.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"UFCW 770\" title=\"UFCW 770\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13540\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/attachment\/ufcw-770\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13546\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/los-angeles-medical-marijuana-workers-join-labor-union\/attachment\/ufcw-770-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/UFCW-7702-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Everyone in the American work force would appreciate more employment perks.\u00a0 However, most of us do not have to fear being arrested by federal authorities at work.\u00a0 Medical marijuana dispensary employees have to confront this fear regularly, and now workers in Los Angeles seeking better representation and protection have now joined the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufcw770.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFCW 770 represents a wide variety of retail workers including barbers, beauticians, pharmacy workers, meat packing and food processing employees, and laboratory workers.\u00a0 Ricardo Icaza, president of Local 770, was eager to welcome the dispensary workers.\u00a0 He summed up his excitement by saying, &#8220;This is the next step in professionalizing and stabilizing this new sector of the health care industry.\u00a0 &#8220;This is a positive step towards successfully integrating compassionate care into our system of health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move is in response to the proposed ban on medical marijuana dispensaries by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacity.org\/YourGovernment\/CityCouncil\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles City Council<\/a>.\u00a0 Mr. Icaza indicated that he directed the union\u2019s political influence toward pressuring officials to avoid the ban.\u00a0 The president of the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance (GLACA), Yamileth Bolanos, welcomed the help and said &#8220;It&#8217;s time to bring in some big guns,&#8221; she told the Los Angeles Times &#8220;Not only are they threatening access for patients, they&#8217;re also trying to take jobs away from our employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Workers in this vulnerable industry are seeking more protection and assurances that they can serve patients.\u00a0 The Los Angeles employees are not the only medical marijuana workers to join a union.\u00a0 In October of last year, Colorado dispensary workers also joined the UFCW.\u00a0 While the moves may not yield results overnight, workers may benefit from greater representation.\u00a0 This ultimately may not eliminate federal raids but could possibly bring more attention to vulnerable jobs that our economy cannot ill afford to lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,52,1396,168,56,9,51,70,1397,1,3,1398,61,1399],"tags":[2628,2632,3965,2746,2636,2631,5,3966,3967,6,3968],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}